Butter roll

[BigCountry]

I'm looking for a good butter roll recipe and cannot find one anywhere! all i can find is recipes for buttery rolls like bread. Im sure some of you folks have had a butter roll, it cant be more than sugar flour milk and butter, its made in a cake pan and eaten with ice cream. Any help would be greatly appreciated.:BigA:

 

[Brtraker]

I'm with you BigCountry, Butter roll is wonderful if done right. My dear friend who passed away a couple of years ago used to make them for me. I am not sure of the recipe but you got most of the ingredients right as I recall. She made them in her final years with canned biscuits. She used real butter, milk, and vanilla flavoring and some sugar. They were wonderful.:biggrin:

 

[THE BAMA IRISHMAN]

Big Country this is all I could find.

Grandmother's Old Fashioned Butter Roll
2 cups all-purpose flour
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 cup shortening
1/2 cup water
3/4 cup butter, softened
1/4 cup granulated sugar
1/2 teaspoon ground nutmeg
2 cups milk
2/3 cup granulated sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla extract

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.

Lightly grease a 7 x 11-inch baking pan.

In a large bowl, mix together flour and salt. Cut shortening in thoroughly with a pastry blender until mixture resembles breadcrumbs. Stir in water and press dough together with your hands. Roll out pastry into a large rectangle. Spread the butter evenly over the pastry, then sprinkle on 1/4 cup sugar and nutmeg. Roll up the dough jellyroll style and pinch to seal. Cut into 12 even slices. Place the rolls in the prepared pan.

In a small saucepan, heat milk, 2/3 cup sugar and vanilla extract until mixture begins to bubble. Pour milk mixture over rolls. Bake in preheated oven until brown, about 30 to 40 minutes.

Serves 12.

 

[TideBeliever]

Serves 12????? LOL Not at my house!

 

[bayoutider]

Serves 12????? LOL Not at my house!

ROFL

I have deferred to the other members because I have never had this. I feel so left out and underprivileged.

 

[BigCountry]

Thanks Irish that sounds pretty close. I appreciate the responses. And I think the yield is way off.. maybe they just forgot the dash, serves 1-2 instead of 12 at my place. LOL:BigA:

 

[BamaLuver]

I'm with you Bayou -- guess I've never tried a butter roll unless I know it by another name.

 

[BamaGoose]

I'm with you Bayou -- guess I've never tried a butter roll unless I know it by another name.

Its a country boy thang, My grandma made an awesome butter roll. Wish I knew the recipe.

 

[TideBeliever]

I was curious and found this recipe. I tried it and it was very good. I don't know how it compares to the from scratch recipe, but this one was very easy to make.

1 can Hungry Jack biscuits
1 1/2 sticks butter or margarine
Sugar and nutmeg

TOPPING:
2 c. milk
3/4 c. sugar
1 1/2 tsp. vanilla

Roll out biscuits as thin as possible on floured board.
Spread each one with butter or margarine and sprinkle with sugar and a little
nutmeg.
Roll up like jelly roll.
Place rolls into a buttered casserole dish.

Topping
Mix the 3/4 cup sugar, 2 cups milk and the vanilla; pour over rolls.
Bake at 350 degrees until brown.
Serve warm.

 

[Tide Tales]

Ah ha! I just knew I had read about this! Last night I found my reference....
published in Tuscaloosa News a year, two, three? ago....This Butter Roll recipe is from the Shirley Family Recipes, published in 2003.

Butter Rolls
2-1/2 cups milk
1-1/4 cup sugar
1-1/2 sticks butter
2 tsp. vanilla

Biscuits
2/3 cup buttermilk
1/2 cup butter
Self-rising flour (I only use all purpose, unbleached flour, so I convert).

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
Heat milk, 3/4 cup sugar, 1/2 stick butter, and vanilla just long enough to melt butter. Pour into casserole dish.

Make biscuits using buttermilk, butter, and enough flour to make a stiff dough.
Divide dough into 6 biscuits. Roll out each biscuit into a circle about 7 inches in diameter. Sprinkle each biscuit with remaining butter and sugar. Roll up, jellyroll fashion, and drop each into the hot milk mixture.
Bake for about an hour or until brown and bubbly.

This dessert apparently came about because on the farm, homemakers had to use the ingredients they had on hand. Every farm had sufficient milk, eggs, butter, flour, and sugar. My Grandmother never read a recipe book, did not own measuring tools, and was the "best-ever" cook. She knew everything there was to know about all the food they grew and more importantly, what to do with all of it! The only 'food' they ever "purchased" was flour, sugar, cornmeal, and oats. Now I wish I had taken good notes! :BigA:

P.S. BT-Are you surprised you've never had Butter Roll Dessert? Have to make it out of biscuits!

 

[BigCountry]

Thanks guys. I bet these are real close to what im talking about but ive always had it left flat in the pan( kinda defeats the purpose of being named butter roll) and it stay real gooey that way. Oops i think i just drooled on the keyboard.:BigA: